Are white matter abnormalities associated with “unexplained dizziness”?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 428-431

  Ahmad, Hena ^a   Cerchiai, Niccolò ^b   Mancuso, Michelangelo ^c   Casani, Augusto P ^b   Bronstein, Adolfo M ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Small vessel disease; Unexplained dizziness; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER LESION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84983371450     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.09.006     Document Type: Article

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